Independent Reading & Research Project Proposal
Write a proposal letter in which you explain the idea for your project. The paragraph should include (1) the relationship of what you’re going to read to what you’ve already read, (2) what you plan to read during term three, (3) the central question that you are exploring (or if already have a thesis you might include a bold, insightful assertion instead of an exploratory), (4) the approximate number of pages in the books you plan to read during term three. Plan to read between 500 and 1000 pages.
Example
During second term I read Paradiso by Jose Lezama Lima, which has been described as a Cuban A Portrait of the Artist. I would like to read other books that are influenced by Joyce’s bildungsroman; I would also like to read literary criticism that analyzes the influence of A Portrait. The first work of criticism I’m interested in reading is From Modernism to Neobaroque: Joyce and Lezama Lima, which I found through Google Books. After reading the work of criticism I plan to read Fun Home, a graphic novel by Alison Bechdel. (The first chapter is called “Old Father, Old Artificer,” words taken from the end of A Portrait.) Finally I plan to read The Dalkey Archive by Flann O’Brien in which a fictionalized Joyce is a speaking character. The question I’m interested in exploring is “How did subsequent writers make use of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man?” (The three books are approximately 800 pages in length.)
Turn in the proposal letter by class time on Monday, February 7, 2011.
No comments:
Post a Comment